Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an ArmenianFilian, George H.
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Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an Armenian
Filian, George H.
Armenia; Armenian question
"We seek no foreign alliances, we court no international complications,
but we claim the right under the Fatherhood of God to demand for our
brother and our sister in the distant East, law, justice, and the
exercise of conscience."
Dr. Greer then read resolutions expressing sympathy for the Armenians,
and protesting against further outrages. The document closes as
follows:
"Resolved, That we hereby extend our deepest sympathy to the
Armenian people who, for their Christian faith, have repeatedly
suffered unspeakable cruelties from their Turkish rulers and
Kurdish neighbors;
"Resolved, That we hereby express to our Christian brethren in
England and on the continent, who are endeavoring to investigate
these outrages and to bring the perpetrators of them to justice,
our hearty good-will and godspeed. We hope and believe that they
will not pause until the extent of these atrocities is clearly
ascertained and the responsibility for them finally fixed;
"Resolved, That in their efforts to provide against the recurrence
of similar acts of oppression in the future, they shall receive
our hearty and unwavering moral support;
"Resolved, That we earnestly call upon our Christian
fellow-citizens everywhere throughout the country to organize and
express an indignant and universal protest against the continuance
of a state of affairs under which it is possible for women and
children to be murdered simply because they are Christians."
The resolutions were adopted by a rising vote, and the
Rev. Dr. Tiffany, Archdeacon of New York, pronounced the benediction.
Very many such mass meetings were held in different cities of the
United States. The U. S. Senate discussed the question and made
similar resolutions. Mr. Call submitted the following as a substitute
for the committee resolutions:
"'That humanity and religion, and the principles on which all
civilization rests, demand that the civilized governments shall,
by peaceful negotiations, or, if necessary, by force of arms,
prevent and suppress the cruelties and massacres inflicted on the
Armenian subjects of Turkey, by the establishment of a government
of their own people, with such guarantees by the civilized powers
of its authority and permanence as shall be adequate to that end.'"
All these resolutions, both of the people and the Senate, went to
President Cleveland, but he has not seen fit to act on them. It would
be absurd to impute this to weakness or unwillingness to decide a
new question: Mr. Cleveland, whatever his limitations, has never
lacked firmness or decision. Doubtless it is because he thinks this
country ought not to break away from its old traditions and involve
itself with European concerns. But this is not a European concern;
it is European, Asiatic, American, the world's; the concern of all
humanity, not to say Christianity.
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